in the current issue
Rare Record Price Guide
- The world's leading authority on prices of rare and collectable records pressed in the UK.
- More Information
R.C. Partners
- Plastic Dreams
- Astral Vinyl
- Rubber Soul
- Fantastic Voyage
- Those Old Records
- Sugarbush Records
- Fine Vinyl
- RARE AND SIGNED
- Kool Kat Jazz Records
- CJ's Music Merchandise
- Rock Music Memorabilia
- Revival Records
- Love Vinyl
- NYLVI.com
- THE SOUND MACHINE
- 991.com
- Beatles Links
- Wienerworld
- VIP Record Fairs
- Austin Record Convention
- Mega Record & CD Fair
- Record Collector's Guild
- RARO
- Arrowfile
- Ace Records
- Clear Spot
- Rockground
- Heritage Auctions - Free Catalog
- Popsike.com
- System Records
- Industrial Silence
- BBC 6 Music
- GEMM
- LP CD Reissues.com
- Blue Storm Music
- GrooveCollector.com
Rolo Tomassi
London Shoreditch Old Blue Last
22nd September, 2008
View: stage-right, standing, sweating
A free album launch gig saw the onetime lap-dance venue heaving with flesh, mainly 20s indie types checking out Rolo Tomassi’s mad mix-up of altprog, extreme metal and more. Led by the growling/screaming/ chirruping Eva Spence, the Sheffield quintet kicked up a mental 50 minutes over seven tracks until 11:20pm. Hysterics kicked things off with otherworldly beats from birthday boy James Spence’s keys, while Joe Nicholson shredded and whined his axe over the rhythm noise. Cacophonous swirling drones and gothic tones led to a bout of stage-diving that would grow through the set to light-rig-jarring proportions, while the shrieks and thrashing of Abraxas led into off-kilter interplay and a mighty crescendo on the likes of Everything Went Grey and the screamathon of Fantasia. Like The Mars Volta being sucked into a blackhole and fighting back with blastbeats.
Reviewed by Tim Jones
<< Back to Issue 356
